What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today we are joined

again by Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner.com and the creator of

growing a greener world on PBS which is a nationally

syndicated organic gardening show and on top of that also the creator of the

online gardening academy and his course beginner gardening fundamentals is a fantastic

fantastic way so I guess get your green thumb if you are feeling like you need a

little bit of practice in that arena and I think we could all use a little bit of practice with our green thumbs.

So today, let's go ahead and do that.

We're going to talk with Joe about his perfect soil recipe when it comes to filling up those raised beds in your front yard, in your backyard, in your side yard, wherever you're growing in your raised beds.

Yesterday we talked about starting seeds and today I figured what better segue than talking about soil.

So Joe, thanks for coming back on and do you want to give us a little bit of a primer on your

soil recipe?

Yeah, absolutely, Kevin. Thanks for having me back and you know we get a lot of questions

about you know what kind of soil do I put into my garden beds whether it's a

raised bed or maybe it's a mounted bed or even a container and that is so critical

I always tell people you know if you've got a dollar to spend on your garden put 90

cents into your soil and 10 cents into your plants because you know with great soil you're creating great

drainage and you're creating the opportunity for the roots to spread out and that's

so important so I would tell you that if we were coming up with a recipe for that I would say,

say, let's talk about raised beds first of all, and let's say 50% of that should be like a high quality

topsoil, basically, and whether you're buying by the bag certainly

there are plenty of options at the garden center for that but if you need more

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